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HOUSE  OF  REPRESENTATIVES,  Dec.  22d,  186:5— Head  first 
ABd  second  times  and  ordered  to  be  printed, 

[By  Mr.  JTeiskkli,,  from  Judici.iry  Committee.] 


A.    BILA. 

To  prevent  trading  with  the  enemy. 

1  Ski^tion    1 .   The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  A7)ierica  d» 

2  enactf  That  no  person  resident  in,  or  citizen  of,  the  Confederate 

3  States,  shall  trade  or  have  commercial  intercourse  witli  citizens 

4  of,  or  residents  in,  the  I'nited  States,  except  in  articles  exclusively 

5  for  the  use  of  the   Government  of  the  Confederate  States  or  a 

6  State  thereof,  under  orders  from  the  proper  authority. 

1  Sf.c.  2.  No  person  shall  bring  into  the  Confederate  States  any 

2  goods,  wares  or  merchandize,  produced  in,  or  brought  from,  the 

3  United  States,  or  from  any  point  within  the  enemy's  lines,  other 

4  thiin  such  property  as  belonged  to  such  person  before  the  war, 
A  or  the  occupation  of  such  point  by  the  enemy,  or  such  property 
6  as  has  been  captured  from  the  enemy. 

1  Sec.  3.  Goods,  wares  and  merchandize,  in  the  foregoing  sec- 

2  tion,  do  not  include  corn,  hay,  wheat,  meal,  flour,  hogs,  horses, 


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3  males,  cattle^ iBliefe^,-woi^l*,;^bacon^>  port, vbeef,  salt,  iron,  or  liearj 

4  ir6n-warje9,.,aTifl8,^>uiiitSf^8  6f*\^r  ^^^otton-or  wool  cartk. 


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1  SEC^i'Any  person  violating  the  piibijisions  of  this  act,  shall 

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2  be  imprisone'd,/ nt)t*Je6S  .than  three  ^iSt>nths*anJ  fined  not  less  than 

3  one  thousand  dollars,  *!jffd  shall  forfeit  the  goods,  wares  au«l 
i  merchandize,  or  the  value  tliereof,  tra-Uni  for  or  brought  within 
5     the  Confederate  States. 


